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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 1h

People are weird. Hell… So am I 😂

Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 1h

It still amazes me that people I shared over 10 years of life with went radio silent because I love every crevice and corner of a man.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 11h

Fall is moving fast 😛 I’ve got a magazine feature, a private school visit, a live author interview, and a BLK Author Expo ahead. Yasss!!! I’m grateful. Nora and me are still outside. #BlackAuthorSky #IndieAuthor #BaltimoreMD #KidLit #AuthorLife

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I often wonder what my unread books be saying when they see my buying more books.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m ready to spend more time on my Substack. Like, really go down some rabbit holes with y’all. 🕳️🐇 There’s so much to unpack.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But let’s talk about how I wrote three stories in the last few months lol 😂 Girl, I’m so back. #BlackAuthorSky #Writing #Editing #Publishing 💅🏾

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Cat Writing

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So I joined Tweet.App to see what’s going on over there. 👀 It’s not X, and I’m not leaving my Bluesky fam. Ever! I just need 5 of y’all to come be nosy with me. Who’s coming? 😂 signup.tweet.app/r/devans_don...

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was interesting programs.clearerthinking.org/who_attracts...

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love who you’ve been. Love who you are right now. And love the person that you will become.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote a poem last night in less than five minutes. And today I sent it to a few outlets. Rattle. The Nation. About Place. Try everything right?

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look, Mama! I'm out here in the world! 📖🪞🍂 www.devanseli.com/p/appearances

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Upcoming Appearances

Southern Soul Music Magazine

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a secret in the shadows. 👁️ Nora’s on sale, fall events are coming, I’ve opened new author services…and something new is coming from Crumb Trail Publishing that you cannot overlook. 👀 www.devanseli.com/p/fall-2026-... #BlackAuthorSky #WritingCommunity #KidLit #AuthorLife #BlackAuthors

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🍂 Fall sale time! Special 22% off Signed copies of Nora Escapes the Bakery are $17.99! From Sept. 25–Oct. 30, only on my Shopify site. Free bookmark included too. 🥹 devans-eli.myshopify.com/products/nor... #BlackAuthorSky #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #Bookish #NoraEscapesTheBakery #BlackAuthors

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2026 is the year I stopped begging people for apologies.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Escape Artist! My Calendar is open for Fall 2026 and Winter 2027 www.facebook.com/share/p/19xB...

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Laaaow! Tah Dow!!! Watch out now! It’s the little one, and I’m not Bow Wow! “

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And I mean that quite literally. 🤣

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For my next trick—aka book—I’ll have you snatching lace fronts off your forehead. The prose is systematic. The wigs will be reported missing. 🫣

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Snatched Wig Moment

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Friday. Bullet journaling kept to a minimum. ✅

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Never ever stoop to their level. Just remove the step-stool, and let things fall as they may. 🫣

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I missed you and you’re an editor who may be interested in a speculative fairy-tale retelling, send me a DM.

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Tiffany Pollard: Do Something!

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I also messaged a couple editors on here. Wink wink. 👀✨

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I asked the professor who bought my children’s book and told me to keep writing to read the manuscript for my next book. She is an accomplished writer herself, so I had to ask. 🥹 I hope she does.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"A book lets you zoom through time and space, but don't bother packing—you can stay in one place. Whether you head north, south, east, or west, a book can be your passport from your own neighborhood to the craters of the moon in your imagination." LeVar Burton

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the biggest joys is learning that one of my readers asked her mom when is my next book coming out lol so cute. Don’t worry, friend. It’s coming soon. 💜💛

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In the Sun of Other Moons… @summertrance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The butterflies have gone. But now I’m seeing sunflowers everywhere. My sister reminded me that this happens every year around this time for me. Last year someone just left a bouquet of sunflowers at my doorstep. It’s always yellow and orange things because before it was bees. And once, dragonflies.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New here? 👀 Nora Escapes the Bakery is my first book baby! Kids can bake, draw, talk through the story, and join in with sound-effect words while they read. ✨ It was built to be experienced beyond the last page! #ChildrensBooks #KidLit #ReadAloud #BlackAuthors #NoraEscapesTheBakery

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m taking applications for a Scam Detection Taskmaster. If you have skills in this area, please inquire within. I’m so tired of these AI-generated novel-esque cold emails talking about you read my book. Ain’t cracked one page. 😂

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

every time i visit toronto i honestly cannot believe my friends’ dog is real

the most cartoonishly adorable big eyed long haired dachshund you’ve ever seen

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

2020 v 2026

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s official. If you read, write, repost, lurk, hype me up as a Black Author, or just enjoy breaking free the painfully predictable… you’re an Escape Artist now. ✨ Welcome to the fold, fam. #BlackWriters #BlackReaders #WritingCommunity #Bookish #EscapeArtists

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yesterday, a councilman, city parks representative, and library manager all asked want me connect with them for future events while I was at the festival yesterday. Of course, I sincerely pray something becomes of it. But the point is, I wasn’t overlooked. I was celebrated as a black queer author.

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I really woke and said, “Fuck yall. I’m living my dreams.” 💫

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Alex Boye Sprinkles Ice Cream Sundae

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Exactly. That’s one of a myriad of reasons why I’m longer a Southern Reformed Baptist. We don’t “have” to.

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Dre 🖤 @demander27.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The way my brain just works to do what’s best for me holistically and spiritually now>>>>>>>

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My mother has convinced me to rewatch The Boys on Prime. Apparently there was some racist innuendos that I completely missed. In return, I suggested that she get hip to Watchmen on HBO starring Regina King… with the quickness.

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gregory was stung by a bee this morning, on his right paw. We removed the stinger, applied a cold compress – and now we’re going to be pampering him and showering him with love even more than usual. 👬❤️🐶

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Devans Eli ✍🏾 @devanseli.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy birthday, Joelle! 🎉💜 That’s right, fam, I do birthdays too! ✨ #ChildrensAuthor #AuthorVisit #KidsBirthday

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